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Evan,

Glad you liked it. I play some Flamenco stuff which, as you know, is typically written in 3/4, but carries the beat of 6/8.

There is some great classical guitar stuff on youtube.com. What a great instrument!

A bit lengthy, but check this one out. The second piece (@ 5min 30 sec) Yepes performs on his venerable 10 string is outstanding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiCIpbwPJkA&search=classical%20guitar

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I haven't found anything more phenomenal than this one minute and 36 second performance of Chopin by piano legend Sviatoslav Richter:

OK, that's awesome- and it's real speed too, I mean not sped up at all? That rocks!

what a nearly impossible piece of music to perform!

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Absolutely, just as my piano brother wrote me after watching it:

This etude is incredibly difficult at any quick speed, not to mention the speed Richter played it.

I love the showmanship in the very start, Richter throwing his handkerchief to the piano top after wiping any sweat off his fingers, and rushing into the piece before the handkerchief has even settled. And a great camera angle.

I think this clip probably comes from a documentary on him, Richter: The Enigma. It's out of print in America. It's available on DVD in the rest of the world, but not available as a Region 1 DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004CXNY/qid=1150989361/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/102-1078092-3191364?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130

Contrary to the impression of this short piece, Richter was not usually a speed demon. He was intense but usually restrained--he held back to play what the music called for instead of taking great liberties with tempo.

I was particularly struck by what an amazon reviewer wrote: "He had no need for material wealth or common creature comforts (many artists *say* this, but how many of them would sleep happily underneath their teacher's piano night after night?)"

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I have been a youtube junky for a while but I never searched monk WOW

Lots of groovey cab calloway as well. I did a search a couple months ago and there were only a few performances now there are lots : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZT3kRMsEk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAZrU5gZwGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM5v76svQCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIs3Ez3AxFM

Since I can't find a time machine this will have to do.

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Jimmy Garrison--bass

McCoy Tyner--piano

Elvin Jones--drums

The greatest "working" quartet of all time! The depth of emotion in their playing is unfathomable. I have a hard time discussing Coltrane--this music hits me at a level that leaves me breathless and speechless for the most part.

An interviewer asked Elvin a couple of years before he passed what made the quartet so special and he said "all three of us were willling to DIE for that motherf*cker every single night--night after night." When you watch this video you start to understand what he meant.


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